I think you’ve shown that there was at least one school of thought that argued for your definition. You’ve failed to account for other schools of thought that may have taken a different approach. One, say, based on the legal system that the Founders were raised in such as
the English Common Law.
What you have entirely failed to is to provide any evidence that you were taught the birther definition of NBC in Civics classes. Plenty have made that assertion in the last 5 years but none have been able to link to anything to back it up despite the internet being awash with examples of old school text books. And you talk about my credibility....
It is absurd beyond dispute to claim that the founders would have vainly or incompetently inserted a superfluous, meaningless word into one of the primary sections of such a painstakingly deliberate document, one of our country’s very own birth documents, our Constitution. If they had meant to allow the broader category of “born citizen” they would have succinctly stated such and not bothered to include the further restrictive qualification of being a natural born Citizen, which clearly must exclude many types of mere “born citizens.”
Who are by far the most common, everyday ordinary type of citizens that naturally populate and perpetuate our great country, the type of citizens who, by their very nature at birth, can only be U.S. citizens and nothing else? The answer is obvious – those born exclusively in country jurisdiction to existing U.S. citizens. These are the only type of citizens who are born with 100 percent, red-blooded exclusive allegiance to no other country but America. These are the natural born Citizens.
By blood and by dirt – and the criminal fraud known as obama simply does not qualify.